jenna: take us back to that day. there's so many questions around the day that you were taken into captivity. just tell us that story. >> well, we had only been in northern iraq for three days, and we only had another day before i had to return back to damascus to continue my teaching job, northern iraq, different from most peoples' expectations and understanding of the region. it's a semiautonomous part of iraq, and there's not a war zone, has not had active conflict. jenna: so you felt safe going there. >> we d we knew other people who traveled there, we looked online and researched hotels and hiking. there's a lot of websites that advertise their booming tourist industry, so yeah, we never would have gone if we didn't feel safe, and we woke up that morning and we said oh, it's a beautiful day, it would be so nice to do a little hiking, see a little nature, and we asked the hotel manager where would be a good place to go and he recommended this spot, aq -- aqmidowa, where there's a waterfall, and no reason to be co